ProPublica
Here’s Why Rapid COVID Tests Are So Expensive and Hard to Find
~14 min read · 2021-11-04 · Months-long silences. Mysterious rejections. Here’s what's behind the shortages of a critical tool for ending the pandemic.
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Vox
What an enormous global study can tell us about feeling better during the pandemic
8 min read · 2021-09-06 · Hundreds of psychologists looked for ways to make people feel better during the pandemic — and they found one.
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jacobsingh.name
Open letter to my unvaccinated friends
2 min read · 2021-09-30 · To all my friends who are still unvaccinated: It is a personal choice, and I respect your freedom to make it. And I still care about you. However, there is also a public health consequence. The R…
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Slate
The Unbelievable Grimness of HermanCainAward, the Subreddit That Catalogs Anti-Vaxxer COVID Deaths
7 min read · 2021-09-22 · This is not a forum that attempts to change minds. It’s much darker.
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The Atlantic
No, Vaccinated People Are Not ‘Just as Likely’ to Spread the Coronavirus as Unvaccinated People
4 min read · 2021-09-23 · This has become a common refrain among the cautious—and it’s wrong.
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nature
How the coronavirus infects cells — and why Delta is so dangerous
~13 min read · 2021-07-28 · Scientists are unpicking the life cycle of SARS-CoV-2 and how the virus uses tricks to evade detection.
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wbur.org
mRNA Was Supposed To Stay Ahead Of Variants. Why Aren't We Using Its Full Potential?
3 min read · 2021-08-27 · Updated vaccines could generate antibodies that are better at fighting the now-dominant delta strain of the coronavirus. But probably not by much.
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Tomas Pueyo
COVID FAQ Summer 2021, Part 1
~11 min read · 2021-08-11 · You shared the last article about the Delta Variant so much that over 350,000 people read it. Thanks for spreading the word on something so important. You then asked so many good questions that I…
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The Atlantic
The mRNA Vaccines Are Extraordinary, but Novavax Is Even Better
7 min read · 2021-06-24 · Persistent hype around mRNA vaccine technology is now distracting us from other ways to end the pandemic.
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Quanta Magazine
How Vaccines Can Drive Pathogens to Evolve
~13 min read · From 2018 · Andrew Read became a scientist so he could spend more time in nature, but he never imagined that would mean a commercial chicken farm. Read, a disease ecologist who directs the Pennsylvania State…
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Tomas Pueyo
Delta Variant: Everything You Need to Know
8 min read · 2021-07-13 · Cases are growing exponentially across the world. Again. If you don’t know where this is going, a historical refresher might help. India has suffered about two million COVID deaths, the majority of…
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Chicago Tribune
What to know about the Delta variant in Illinois
4 min read · 2021-06-29 · Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Monday that the Delta variant already is a “growing presence in Illinois,” and officials expect it to be the dominate coronavirus strain statewide by the fall.
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Science Magazine
Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
~14 min read · 2021-06-24 · The effectiveness of masks in preventing the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has been debated since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. One important question is…
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Scott Galloway
Calling Marshall | No Mercy / No Malice
6 min read · 2021-05-21 · Seventy-five years ago, the world was ravaged by the defining crisis of the 20th century. Tens of millions died, societies were shattered, and geopolitical power plates experienced tectonic shifts. Of…
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WIRED
The Teeny, Tiny Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
~19 min read · 2021-05-13 · All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a mysterious error in decades-old research.
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tomaspueyo.com
The Top 25 Mistakes of COVID Mismanagement
~19 min read · 2021-05-14 · Note: this article will be updated as more failures get highlighted by subscribers There have been 3 million deaths so far and tens of millions of people with long COVID. As I explained last week, we…
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